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Evaluation of goodness of fit of semiparametric and parametric models in analysis of factors associated with length of stay in neonatal intensive care unit [PDF]

Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics, 2020
Background Length of stay is a significant indicator of care effectiveness and hospital performance. Owing to the limited number of healthcare centers and facilities, it is important to optimize length of stay and associated factors.
Fatemeh Kheiry, Sadegh Kargarian-Marvasti, Sima Afrashteh, Abolfazl Mohammadbeigi, Nima Daneshi, Salma Naderi, Seyed Hossein Saadat   +6 more
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Comparing of cox model and parametric models in analysis of effective factors on event time of neuropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes [PDF]

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2017
Background: Cox proportional hazard model is the most common method for analyzing the effects of several variables on survival time. However, under certain circumstances, parametric models give more precise estimates to analyze survival data than Cox ...
Sadegh Kargarian-Marvasti, Shahnaz Rimaz, Jamileh Abolghasemi, Iraj Heydari   +3 more
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Deep Neural Networks for Analysis of Microscopy Images—Synthetic Data Generation and Adaptive Sampling

Crystals, 2021
The analysis of microscopy images has always been an important yet time consuming process in materials science. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been very successfully used for a number of tasks, such as image segmentation.
Patrick Trampert, Dmitri Rubinstein, Faysal Boughorbel, Christian Schlinkmann, Maria Luschkova, Philipp Slusallek, Tim Dahmen, Stefan Sandfeld   +7 more
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Ontology-Based Semantic Conceptualisation of Historical Built Heritage to Generate Parametric Structured Models from Point Clouds

Applied Sciences, 2021
Nowadays, cultural and historical built heritage can be more effectively preserved, valorised and documented using advanced geospatial technologies. In such a context, there is a major issue concerning the automation of the process and the extraction of ...
Elisabetta Colucci, Xufeng Xing, Margarita Kokla, Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi, Francesca Noardo, Antonia Spanò   +5 more
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PGD based meta modelling of a lithium-ion battery for real time prediction

Frontiers in Materials, 2023
Despite the existence of computationally efficient tools, the effort for parametric investigations is currently high in industry. In this paper, within the context of Li-Ion batteries, an efficient meta-modelling approach based on the Proper Generalized ...
Alexander Schmid, Angelo Pasquale, Angelo Pasquale, Christian Ellersdorfer, Victor Champaney, Victor Champaney, Marco Raffler, Simon Guévelou, Stephan Kizio, Mustapha Ziane, Florian Feist, Francisco Chinesta, Francisco Chinesta, Francisco Chinesta   +13 more
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Retrospective Post-Hospitalisation COVID-19 Mortality Risk Assessment of Patients in South Africa

European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 2023
Background: This study explores the determinants impacting the mortality risk of COVID-19 patients following hospitalisation within South Africa’s Limpopo province. Methods: Utilising a dataset comprising 388 patients, the investigation employs a frailty
Alexander Boateng, Daniel Maposa, Reshoketswe Mokobane   +2 more
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Sap flow as a function of variables within nested scales: ordinary least squares vs. spatial regression models

Environmental Research: Ecology, 2023
Understanding scale-dependent influential drivers of sap flow variability can help managers and policymakers to allocate resources within a particular scale to improve forest health and resiliency against water-stress stimuli such as drought and insects,
Khodabakhsh Zabihi, Vivek Vikram Singh, Aleksei Trubin, Ivana Tomášková, Miroslav Blaženec, Peter Surový, Rastislav Jakuš   +6 more
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Software-Automatized Individual Lactation Model Fitting, Peak and Persistence and Bayesian Criteria Comparison for Milk Yield Genetic Studies in Murciano-Granadina Goats

Mathematics, 2020
SPSS model syntax was defined and used to evaluate the individual performance of 49 linear and non-linear models to fit the lactation curve of 159 Murciano-Granadina goats selected for genotyping analyses. Lactation curve shape, peak and persistence were
María Gabriela Pizarro Inostroza, Francisco Javier Navas González, Vincenzo Landi, José Manuel León Jurado, Juan Vicente Delgado Bermejo, Javier Fernández Álvarez, María del Amparo Martínez Martínez   +6 more
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Urban-rural differentials in Latin American infant mortality

Demographic Research, 2020
Background: Infant mortality in Latin America has declined dramatically over the past six decades. The health transition in the region began in the main cities and has tended to proceed more rapidly in countries with higher levels of urbanization ...
Jenny Garcia
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Evaluation of Survival Analysis Models for Predicting Factors Infuencing the Time of Brucellosis Diagnosis [PDF]

Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2019
Background:Brucellosis or Malta fever is one of the most common zoonotic diseases in the world. In addition to causing human suffering and dire economic impact on animals, due to the high prevalence of Brucellosis in the western regions of Isfahan ...
Sadegh kargarian-Marvasti, sima afrashteh, Gholamreza Rafiei   +2 more
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